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Thriving On Change

Office Dynamics

Wow…. Something is definitely in the air… it is something that disrupts our lives; pushes us out of our comfort zones; often causes stress and pressure, but can be rewarding and invigorating. Can you guess what it is? CHANGE! I have been speaking on change since 1990. It has always been a great topic because everyone can relate to change personally and professionally.

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Why the Real High Potentials Often Get Ignored

On The Job

When private companies begin using military jargon to describe their organizational challenges, then it’s clear that something has shifted in the business landscape. Specifically, the term “VUCA,” is being heard in more private companies, a military term which stands for volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. While it once may have been mostly confined to military operations and training, it’s now being bounced around businesses as more teams deal with a volatile and uncertain marketplace.

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The On-Demand Workforce Continues to Expand

Small Business Labs

About 3.9 million Americans are working in the on-demand economy, up from 3.2 million this time last year. The number is forecast to grow to 9.2 million by 2021. This is about a 23% compounded annual growth rate.  This is part of the findings of the recently released Intuit 2016 Dispatch From the New Economy: The On-Workforce study.  This is the 2nd year of this study and Emergent Research again partnered with Intuit on this research.

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Video Sizzle Reel – Best Of Portfolio Showcase

Andrea Kalli

Don’t forget to make a Video Sizzle Reel for your business portfolio or “best of” videos? Show your best work. Your portfolio. The best pictures at your event. The highlights of your testimonial videos. A sizzle reel, or showcase reel, is a great way to give people a peek at who you are and what you’re about, in a short amount of time. 60 seconds is an ideal length for a sizzle reel.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Tips For Identifying Your Workforce Critical Skill Gaps

Office Dynamics

Achieving company goals, increasing revenue, and one-step ahead of the competition is on the mind of every CEO and manager across the globe. However, one of the biggest obstacles managers come across is the gap between the skills needed to achieve the aforementioned objectives and the skills of the workforce. Technology has allowed for things to develop a lot faster nowadays, which makes these “skill gaps” a lot more common than they used to be.

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Podcast 044: What’s the worst case scenario?

Clutter Coach

by Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play. You can leave a review here! In this episode, I’ll talk about how asking yourself what the worst that can happen is can help you make decisions. Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play. This podcast is based on my book, 52 Simple Ways to Get Organized, available on my website.

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Career Success A to Z: L is for Lifelong Learning

Eat Your Career

This article is part of a series. Learn more about it and access links to other articles in the series here. It’s no exaggeration to say that I truly believe one of the core reasons we are all here on this planet is to learn. As humans, we have been endowed with the amazing gift of intellect. To squander that is, in my opinion, the height of arrogance.

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San Francisco's (and Washington D.C's) Surging Household Income

Small Business Labs

San Francisco's real median household income has increased from $55,221 in 2000  to $88,829 in 2016.  This will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with SF's tech boom. What is surprising is the real median household income for the U.S. in 2000 was $57,790 - more than $2000 higher than San Francisco's.  Since 2000 SF's median household income has surged about 60%.

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Video Animations Add Wow Factor

Andrea Kalli

As you’re building your video project, don’t forget that Video Animations add a great WOW factor. They also work great used as attention-getting pattern interrupts. Don’t let your viewers fall asleep! Attention spans are short these days, and using a few animated elements in your video will repeatedly snap the attention of your audience back to your video message, and help to get them to watch it until the end.

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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Habits are your friend

Clutter Coach

by What are the best habits? The ones that work for you. Why do they work? Because they are tailored to you in all your quirky glory. It’s said that the early bird gets the worm and that early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. But, frankly, I am not a morning person. Never have been. When my mom woke me up for breakfast on school days she usually had to try several times.

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Ways To Improve The Cyber Security For Your Small Business

Small Business CEO

Owning a small business provides many perks, but unfortunately there is one major pitfall when it comes to being a small business owner and that is being vulnerable to a cyber attack. Small businesses can be easy targets for cyber attacks as many small businesses simply don’t have the resources and money to put into a huge IT team to ensure that all of their important business and client information and documents is secure.

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3 Questions You Can Ask for Greater Personal Productivity

Productivityist

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. – Albert Einstein. In my years of studying productivity, I’ve found that my greatest asset is to never stop asking questions. It’s led to some of my best work. Asking yourself great questions can do the same for you. But what questions should you ask?

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Save More Time With Savvy Templates In 3 Easy Steps

The Art of Admin

None of us want to deal with more forms, checklists or templates right? We just don’t have the time (or the patience). But, what if I said that templates are one of the easiest ways to unlock time in your. The post Save More Time With Savvy Templates In 3 Easy Steps appeared first on The Art of Admin.

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Mandatory COVID Vaccination Policy Template

New vaccine mandates and testing policies will affect employers with more than 100 workers. Get Paycor’s free, customizable vaccination policy template to communicate critical details and new requirements to your employees. Get Paycor’s Template today!

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Overcoming resistance

Clutter Coach

by I am happy to announce that the interview Mike Vardy did with me for The Productivityist podcast is now available. We had a terrific conversation about productivity, of course, and also habits, how to start, what clutter is, and today’s topic, resistance. You can listen here. What is resistance? It’s when you don’t do the thing you said you wanted to do.

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How 2 Kids And Working From Home Taught Me To Become A More Efficient Business Owner

Small Business CEO

At first, I felt euphoric. It was 2012. I had ditched the 9-5 and I was my own boss. I no longer had to ask permission to leave work early and I could pick the kids up from school whenever I wanted. But it didn’t take long for things to change. Sometimes I wasn’t putting the hours in when I should be. Other times I found myself pulling all-nighters and getting grumpy from the lack of sleep.

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Keep Calm, Get a Kit!

Three Shots Ahead

Emergency Kit bag – Grab Bag I know I am a planner. I try to be spontaneous but I accept that I am organised and like to plan. I read two articles recently that made me realise that I might.

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Hypnosis for Better Performance

Brilliantly Better

This is a guest post by Harrish Sairaman. The mind controls everything a person does – the way that he/she thinks, feels, moves and reacts is governed by what goes on in the mind. Because of this, improving one’s mind is… The post Hypnosis for Better Performance appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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The Productivityist Podcast: Claire Tompkins

Productivityist

. This episode’s guest is Claire Tompkins (a.k.a. the Clutter Coach). Claire works with clients to organize and declutter their homes and offices, to manage their time, and get things done better. She works with artists, writers, entrepreneurs, and more as a professional organizer by creating simple, practical systems for real people. If you’ve been following the podcast and my other work, you’d know how big a fan of simple I am.

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7 Customer Service Best Practices Tips for Retaining Great Customers

Small Business CEO

Let’s face it: Getting customers is easy most times compared to actually keeping them. There’s so much competition to contend with these days, it’s near impossible to keep running with the best prices in your industry, your city; your little cozy niche that nobody knows about… Yet! Then one day Joe Bigtime, who’s been watching your every move and figuring out how to do it even better than you, strolls into town and upsets everything you’ve been working toward.

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Changing Communities

Three Shots Ahead

Earlier this month I’d spent a frosty Tuesday in the docks of East London keeping warm and toasty in the University of East London’s archive library. The area used to be the hub of London’s Docklands up until the middle.

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7 Awesome Ways to Get More Instagram Followers

Small Business CEO

Do you want more Instagram followers –silly question, of course you do. More Instagram followers mean more exposure for your blog, site or business and more eyes on your business mean more publicity for you. So, follow these tips below to see how to grow your following. Tell People About Your Instagram Account. If you have a large following on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or have a blog, tell people to follow you on Instagram for more content.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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5 Marketing Campaigns That Helped These Small Businesses Grow

Small Business CEO

The goal of a marketing campaign is to help your audience understand the brand, increase awareness and engagement, and of course, generate sales. The best marketing campaigns go above and beyond to resonate with consumers by playing into emotions and generating excitement for a product or service. Regardless of the industry you’re in, there are always unique ways to create effective and relevant marketing strategies.

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Management Tips For a Staff That Works Remotely

Small Business CEO

In this digital era with the internet making communication and productivity so much easier, it is becoming more and more common for entire staffs to all live in different locations working remotely. Telecommuting is something that is made possible not only to one specific type of career or only a few. Recent research shows that over half of Americans have a job that has potential to be done remotely.

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Smart Business Approaches To Handling Different Types of Loans

Small Business CEO

If you plan on starting a business, or perhaps plan on keeping a business going, by taking into consideration different types of loans, then it’s important to understand the ramifications of each possibility. Five types of transactions that can have an effect on your business financial possibilities include dealing with student loans, small business loans, loans from family and friends, private loans, and then the choice to take on credit card debt as a form of self-loan.

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7 Employee Retention Strategies You Should Start Using

Small Business CEO

Ever noticed how every smart entrepreneur refers to their employees as a team? That’s because they know the value the right people bring to their companies. A business cannot be successful without the right people. photo credit: Kompania Piwowarska / Flickr. That might sound obvious, but many small businesses ignore the importance of their human resources.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha